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In the waning hours of his presidency, Barack Obama used his clemency power to commute the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Army analyst convicted of espionage in July 2013 by a military court after she turned over a massive cache of defense and diplomatic records, then the largest single leak in U.S. history, to the organization WikiLeaks. Among the materials released by Manning was a video recording showing Iraqi civilians being killed in a U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007.

According to a White House press release, along with abridging Manning’s 35-year sentence to end in May of this year, Obama granted 208 other commutations and 64 pardons Tuesday, thus closing a second-term scramble to reduce the federal prison population and establishing him as the most clement president in recent history. Obama has issued the most combined commutations and pardons of any president since Harry Truman, and more than Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes combined.

Obama has been under growing pressure from human rights activists to commute the sentence of Manning and her fellow leaker Edward Snowden, who disclosed information on a number of surveillance programs in 2013, on the grounds that their actions served the public interest. The administration warmed to clemency for Manning, but not for Snowden, who fled the country to Russia and has not been tried in a U.S. court.

Although Manning is the highest-profile name among the clemency list issued by the White House, there are a few more prominent names.

Retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright, who leaked information to The New York Times reporters about the classified Stuxnet computer worm, which was used to hamper Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and admitted to lying about the leaks to FBI investigators, was granted a pardon Tuesday. Oscar López Rivera, leader of the Puerto Rican independence group Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, who was sentenced in 1981 for 55 years for sedition, received a full commutation. Rivera had previously rejected President Bill Clinton’s offer for partial commutation in 1999.

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist facing two life sentences, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist from Philadelphia serving a life sentence, were also not granted commutations or pardons. Both men were convicted in the killings of law-enforcement officers, but activists on their behalf contend their trials were tainted by racism and government subterfuge.

The vast majority of the remaining names on the White House’s clemency list are ordinary offenders that fit within the administration’s guidelines for clemency action: those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses who were given stiff federal penalties under older drug laws. The list of commutations includes around 100 people given life sentences for drug distribution or possession, with a handful of those including violent offenses or possession of a firearm.

Aside from the commutations, some convicted of nonviolent drug charges were pardoned––unlike a commutation, a pardon wipes away post-conviction restrictions like being barred from voting or serving on a jury.

It is this last group of people, in addition to the more famous names, the Obama administration hopes will help define its record on clemency. Obama’s clemency initiative has now granted over 1,300 commutations and pardons to mostly nonviolent drug-offenders.

Obama’s clemency efforts—along with a push to scale back private prisons—signal an administration and country willing to dial back at least some of its commitments to mass incarceration made during the War on Drugs. Also, his commutations of Mannings’ and Cartwright’s sentences come as an acknowledgment the criticism over the administration’s record of expanding Bush-era surveillance powers and its aggressive prosecutions of leakers.